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On March 1st we published our e-magazine "Beyond the Curtain". Back then we only published in German, English and Polish. But thanks to a grant provided by the German-French Youth Office (DFJW), the e-magazine has now also been made available in French.

At the beginning of the ‘90s, finding cheap prices on goods—from cigarettes, garden gnomes, knockoff perfume, among other things—was as easy as going on a trip to the “Polish Markets” in Słubice. Is business at the bazaars still booming, 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall?

It’s finally time: The e-magazine of Beyond the Curtain is here! In five large reportages, each written by two Babelians from East and West, we explore the current state of Europe – 25 years after the Fall of the Iron Curtain.

The beginning of this year saw one of the bloodiest terror attacks of the century. And we're not talking about France, but rather northeastern Nigeria. Yet compared with Charlie Hebdo, reports over Boko Haram's executed massacre have been reduced to nothing other than footnotes. It's time to look across the Mediterranean.

Things are finally ready. Our reportage project Beyond the Curtain is going into its final phase. Starting today, our five binational reporter teams will go out looking one last time for new stories between East and West.

The movement Patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the West started in Dresden last fall. Since then it's appeared in numerous other German cities such as Bonn, Kassel and Munich. Using the guise of an 'afternoon strolls,' large demonstrations have been taking place every monday. Recently, 15,000 people appeared on the streets of Dresden, in addition to the 4500 counterprotesters.

Of course Germans can flirt; hopefully we've at learned that by now. They're maybe not the best at it, but depending on blood alcohol levels and individual creativity, all nationalities can be bad flirts. We've compiled the most romantic, craziest and bizarre flirting strategies from across the globe for all those moments that hang on the line.

Rumour has it that German men can't flirt. Should they ever try their luck, it often comes across as too subtle for most women. Why is it that we always perpetuate the same clichés about men and women? We turn the tables by calling for a new form of shyness.